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Woot! After a five-month leave of absence to undergo a bone marrow transplant for a rare blood disorder, Robin Roberts has returned to Good Morning America, opening with: "I have been waiting 174 days to say this: 'Good Morning America." She added: "I keep pinching myself and I realize this is real. This is actually happening, and I don't have my froggy slippers on, or do I? Faith, family and friends have brought me to this moment and I am so full of gratitude."
Roberts seems in damn good spirits because she's a brave-ass lady. Case in point: although her doctors don't necessarily sanction her ambitious jump back into the media fray, but she's interviewing Michelle Obama on the 26th. President Obama and FLOTUS taped a Welcome Back message for Roberts that GMA aired, in which the President says that he's glad that she's "back doing what [she] does best." Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey also welcomed Roberts back. This kind of killed me:
Heeding her doctors' caution that her immune system is still rebuilding, the "GMA" team refrained from the hugs or high-fives they clearly would like to have shared.
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Prince William is being overprotective and kind of adorable if you're NOT Kate Middleton, but he's annoying the fuck out of Kate Middleton. He's going overboard trying to shield her from "weird diseases" and took the romance out of their Mustique vacation by spraying everything with antibacterial stuff and having extra security detail follow them everywhere:
"His paranoia was driving Kate quite mad, but she went along with his demands - until the day he forbade her to join her family for a fun night out at a local bistro. He told her he was fearful because he wouldn't be able to inspect the way her food was being prepared! While Kate truly appreciates William's concern, his overprotective ways definitely put a bit of a damper on the vacation."
A picture circulated on Instagram recently of (perhaps?) Miley Cyrus surrounded by smoke with the artful caption "High as fuck," posted by the username "mileyxxcyrus." Will the real Miley Cyrus please stand up?! asked everybody/Eminem in 2000. She did so by taking to Twitter to inform us that she does not, in fact, have an Instagram. Also:
Look inside yourself and ask the honest question: Why AM I tripping? The answer... may surprise you. [Fanshare, E!]
Scarlett Johansson wore a pear-shaped diamond ring outside and now the Internet thinks she might be engaged to her boyfriend, 57-year-old Parsippany life insurance salesman Kevin Schmeeble. (JK: 30-year-old French journalist Romain Dauriac.) However, she recently told Elle UK: "I never think about marriage. Is that weird?" Nope! Especially not since she gets to ogle Benjamin Walker's above-butt dimples every night on Broadway. Add a guilt-free daily log of goat cheese and that's what heaven is. [NYDN]
Aside from being completely unrecognizable at Fashion Week a la Jennifer Grey post-nose job, Ashlee Simpson has been displaying some "out of control behavior" since her parents' split and the Joe Simpson gay rumors. Specifically, she went to L.A.'s Pink Taco, had a few shots, and grinded (ground?) on some guys. [Radar Online]
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are really in foreverlove and it's because they didn't fuck it up with the dumbass institution of marriage. (Which is admittedly a nice idea but completely impractical. Like tying a bunch of balloons to a chair and sitting in it and waiting to float away. Does that make any sense?) [Radar Online]
- Turns out Lindsay Lohan's still single and soooo relatable! Just one of those "AHH, why am I still single LOL!" Eating chocolate! Reading Cathy comics! Reading chocolate! Eating Kathy comics!" normal, relatable girls! [TMZ]
- You know, just one of those $500,000 for promoting an energy drink in Dubai kind of girls! [Herald Sun]
- We get it, will.i.am. You like hideous cars. [TMZ]
- Matthew Broderick yelled at a dude who was taking pictures during his performance in "Nice Work if You Can Get It." (Whereas Ferris Bueller would have grinned roguishly and started singing Wayne Newton because nihilism!) [Page Six]
- Adam Levine and his model girlfriend are having relationship problems. There's something about the guy that I just don't like. He's so slithery, nahmean? [Page Six]
- The alliances of middle-aged gay men/my mother, in turmoil: Barry Manilow and Bette Midler have been feuding for years and may be patching it up now. [Page Six]
- Like exes since the beginning of time, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles are avoiding each other. [Page Six]
- Mario Lopez impregnated his wife Courtney for the second time and now she's growing a tiny person and shit. [L.A. Times]
- Kate Bosworth is doing some "multimedia project" for Topshop that makes me feel tired and old. [Telegraph UK]
- Oh Christ almighty. Jessica Simpson wants to name her baby Ace. [Us Weekly]
- Kim Kardashian borrowed one of your weird high school drama teacher's shawls and waved it around in a magazine. Sorry she swaggerjacked you, Mrs. Anzuini. [Us Weekly]
- Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is so unsurprisingly beautiful it makes me want to puke everywhere. [Us Weekly]
- Naomi Campbell's never really worried about her weight. [People]
- Mary J. Blige isn't paying her rent. :-|||| [NYDN]
- Rihanna's doing a MAC makeup line since that River Island fashion gig went so well. [Elle UK]
- Ron Jeremy and Ron Jeremy's penis were released from the hospital. [Toronto Sun
- Chris Bosh's wife Adrienne once conned her then-boyfriend Lil Wayne into giving her $10,000 by telling him that she had cancer. Eep! [NYDN]
- "It was a shitty situation and it sucked," says Vanessa Hudgens tells Paper Mag about her nude photo leak of yore. [Gossip Cop]
- Mila Kunis hints once again that she wants to play Ana in 50 Shades of Grey. [Entertainmentwise]
- Clive Davis pulled one of those "not really an apology but I'm sorry YOU feel that way" infuriating things on Kelly Clarkson as a response to her issues about scenes in his memoir. [Just Jared]
- Kristen Wiig and Seth Rogen will guest-star on Arrested Development! [Just Jared]
- And Wiig will play (wait for it) YOUNG LUCILLE BLUTH. A++++ [Vulture]


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At last year's CES, 802.11ac was hardly prevalent on the show floor. Though other companies were still showing off their 802.11n capable routers, only Texas-based Buffalo had a prototype router set up at its booth for attendees to see. This year, the tables seemed to have turned, as the show floor was rampant with 802.11ac products, including varying routers from competing companies.
Interestingly enough, all of the routers featured here claim to be able to dial in a hearty 1300Mbps on their 5GHz band. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen—we haven't used any of them just yet—but one thing is for sure: if you're buying a new router this year, you may want to consider making the switch to 802.11ac after all. Fortunately, there were plenty of choices on display at CES, so here are a few of the models worth looking out for later this year.
Buffalo AirStation AC1750 Gigabit Dual Band Wireless Router – WZR-1750DHP
The AirStation AC1750 Gigabit Dual Band Wireless Router (or, more simply, model WZR-1750DHP) will cost $179 and feature speeds up to 1300Mbps on the 5GHz band and 450Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. It also contains a dual-core chip for Buffalo's Beamforming technology, which provides faster Wi-Fi speeds and longer ranges. Additionally, it will ship with four gigabit Ethernet ports, as well as USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports for NAS-like functionality and printer sharing. It's expected to ship late this year.
Netgear D6200 Wi-Fi DSL Modem Router
Netgear announced a slew of products at its official CES 2013 press conference, one of which was the 802.11ac-compatible, dual-band gigabit D6200 Wi-Fi router. The router features built-in ADSL2+ model and Gigabit WAN with support for fiber-optic connections. It also comes with a proprietary featured dubbed Netgear ReadySHARE cloud that allows users to remotely access hard drives, printers, and flash drives that are tethered to the monitor. It will be available in April.
Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Router AC1750 HD Video Pro, EA6700
The Smart Wi-Fi Router AC1750 HD Video Pro, EA 6700 is one of the beefier router models the company showed off at CES. The dual-band EA 6700 supports up to 10 or more connected devices and can support streaming HD video, as well as Wi-Fi speeds of up to 1300Mbps on the 5GHz band and up to 450Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. As an added bonus, it also syncs up with Linksys's iOS and Android apps and features SmartMap, which offers a virtual representation of every device connected within the network. No word yet on its availability.
D-link AC1750 Dual-Band Gigabit Cloud Router, DIR-868L
D-link debuted a couple of new 802.11ac routers on the show floor, one of which is the DIR-868L: a dual-band gigabit, cloud-capable router with the ability to control its settings via a mobile app or the Web. The cylindrical shaped router is a nice change of pace from the standard "skinny box" model and features a Qualcomm-based processor inside to facilitate StreamBoost, which helps designate the appropriate amount of bandwidth for all of the devices connected to the router. The router should be available later this year.
Update: This article has been edited to fix a reference to SteamBoost technology using a processor manufactured by Broadcam. Qualcomm is the correct company behind the product. Ars regrets the error.

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Some see it as a glimmer of hope. There are reports of bipartisan spirit rising to meet the challenge of immigration reform. E.J. Dionne writing for the Washington Post, while still having a fairly clear eye for the political dynamics underfoot, enthuses that "the odds that we will finally fix a broken immigration system are very high." The contending political players wrangle over who will get to claim credit, Obama saying the time is now or a bipartisan group of senators advancing their own proposals for compromise, and that only goes to show "how strong the bias toward action has become."
Allow me to look this gift horse in the mouth.
Michael Lind writing at salon.com also applauds most of the features of immigration reform apparently coming into focus —a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants, increased skilled immigration and increased law enforcement— yet, he argues, "one provision stinks to high heaven and should be rejected by Americans of left, right and center." The provision he finds so distasteful is a new "guest-worker program" (a part of the proposed senate compromise, the President hasn't as yet weighed in on the matter). Lind essentially equates the program with expansion of indentured servitude right here in these United States. And I'm afraid he's just about right.
I've given a link to Lind's article and I would urge all to read it. I won't very successfully paraphrase it here. Lind goes into some detail about how our "guests" have been treated n the past and what they could expect through this proposed program.
What I find most persuasive about his argument is that he sees the problem of labor exploitation as contagious as it truly is. Last year there was much hay made (excuse the expression) of the crops that weren't taken in at harvest in southern states that had taken an aggressive stance towards illegal workers. Come harvest time farmers complained they'd been deprived of their workforce. "Illegals" were suddenly pointed to as a necessary part of our food economy and this was a case in point for how urgently we need to fix a broken system.
There is certainly something broken on display, when we are shown that our farm economy is dependent upon laborers with something less than the guaranteed protections of full citizenship to function. But is it immigration policy or how we define citizenship that is problem? Or is it an economy that cannot seem to function without what Michael Lind characterizes as "serf labor"? Remember this the same economy where we fret about the cost of an additional fews cents to a pizza weighed against whether the guy who cooked it should have access to healthcare. What does it say of our own citizenship when we invent something less than citizenship for those we need to work the work we find beneath us?
Back when Abraham Lincoln was running for president on an anti-slavery platform, he made the occasional comment about human dignity and higher principles of freedom, compassion for the oppressed and so on, but the political power of his message came in recognizing the economic reality of common fate, not the lofty idealism. The Free Labor of autonomous citizens is what our system of government and society and economy is premised upon. Pervert that in part and you risk the whole. A house divided…
I remember I had the same misgivings about supposed immigration reform six years ago when George Bush was the president trying to advance it and Karl Rove was out and about telling us all we shouldn't expect his kid to mow lawns or dig ditches. I compared watching the two sides in the debate to my experience as a kid watching Earl Weaver's Orioles play Billy Martin's Yankees in a baseball game —wishing both could loose. Maybe I've grown since then —and realize compromise is a good thing sometimes —and I know somewhat more than a little will be required to improve our current system of immigration and citizenship. Unlike, E.J. Dionne, I don't expect it will ever be "finally fixed."
I only hope in our desire to "finally fix things" we don't trap sickness under a convenient and superficial bandage.


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Durable Borgnine's motto: 'You gotta go to work'
LOS ANGELES (AP) — He was a tubby tough guy with a pug of a mug, as unlikely a big-screen star or a romantic lead as could be imagined.
Yet Ernest Borgnine won a woman's love and an Academy Award in one of the great lonelyhearts roles in "Marty," a highlight in a workhorse career that spanned nearly seven decades and more than 200 film and television parts.
Borgnine, who died Sunday at 95, worked to the end. One of his final roles was a bit part as a CIA records-keeper in 2011's action comedy "Red" — fittingly for his age, a story of retired spies who show that it's never too late to remain in the game when they're pulled back into action.
"I keep telling myself, 'Damn it, you gotta go to work,'" Borgnine said in a 2007 interview with The Associated Press. "But there aren't many people who want to put Borgnine to work these days. They keep asking, 'Is he still alive?'"
And yet people put him to work — and kept him working — from his late-blooming start as an actor after a 10-year Navy career through modern times, when he had a recurring voice role on "SpongeBob SquarePants," became the oldest actor ever nominated for a Golden Globe and received the lifetime-achievement award last year from the Screen Actors Guild.
Borgnine died of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife and children at his side, said spokesman Harry Flynn.
With his beefy build and a huge orb of a head that looked hard enough to shatter granite, Borgnine naturally was cast as heavies early on, notably as Sgt. Fatso Judson, the brute who beat Frank Sinatra's character to death in 1953's Pearl Harbor saga "From Here to Eternity."
More bad guy roles followed, but Borgnine showed his true pussycat colors as lovesick Marty Piletti, a Bronx butcher who, against all odds and his own expectations, finds romance with a wallflower in "Marty," adapted from Paddy Chayefsky's television play. Borgnine won the best-actor Oscar, and the film picked up three other awards, including best picture.
It turned out to be Borgnine's only Oscar nomination, yet it was a star-making part that broke him out of the villain mold. Borgnine went on to roles in such films as "The Dirty Dozen," ''The Wild Bunch," ''The Flight of the Phoenix," ''The Poseidon Adventure" and "Escape from New York," but after "Marty," the veteran sailor's most memorable character appropriately came with the title role of the 1960s TV comedy "McHale's Navy" and its big-screen spinoff.
Mischievous con man McHale, commander of a World War II PT boat manned by misfits and malcontents, was far closer in spirit than shy Marty or savage Fatso to the real Borgnine, who had a cackling laugh and a reputation as a prankster.
Despite his big-hearted nature, Borgnine was typecast as a thug from the start, playing bad guys in a series of Westerns including Randolph Scott's "The Stranger Wore a Gun," Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden's "Johnny Guitar" and Gary Cooper's "Vera Cruz" and Victor Mature and Susan Hayward's historical saga "Demetrius and the Gladiators."
Borgnine was playing another nasty character opposite Spencer Tracy in "Bad Day at Black Rock" when he auditioned for "Marty." In a 2004 interview, Borgnine recalled that Chayefsky and "Marty" director Delbert Mann thought of him as an actor whose lone screen specialty was to "kill people."
The filmmakers had hoped to cast Rod Steiger, who played the lead in the TV version of "Marty," but he had just landed a part Borgnine himself coveted — the bad guy Jud Fry in "Oklahoma!" Mann and Chayefsky flew to the "Black Rock" location to audition Borgnine, who showed up wearing a "cowboy suit, cowboy hat, three-day growth of beard, cowboy boots," the actor recalled. He even began the audition in a Western drawl before shifting to Marty's Bronx accent.
Borgnine said he knew immediately he had won over Mann and Chayefsky, and "Marty" charmed audiences who saw for the first time that he could play the teddy bear as well as the beast.
No one knew Borgnine could act at all — himself included — until he came home from World War II after his 10-year Navy stint. He enlisted in 1935, was discharged in 1941, then re-enlisted when the war began, serving on a destroyer.
As he contemplated what to do after the war, Borgnine's mother suggested acting.
"She said, 'You always like getting in front of people and making a fool of yourself, why don't you give it a try?'" Borgnine recalled last year, shortly before receiving his SAG lifetime honor. "I was sitting at the kitchen table and I saw this light. No kidding. It sounds crazy. And 10 years later, I had Grace Kelly handing me an Academy Award."
Mann and Chayefsky also won Oscars, and modest, gentle "Marty" claimed the best-picture prize over big-budget contenders "The Rose Tattoo," ''Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," ''Picnic" and "Mister Roberts."
"Marty" made his career, but the success also brought complications for Borgnine.
"The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful," Borgnine said in 1966. "But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life."
Those messes included four failed marriages, including one in 1964 to singer Ethel Merman that lasted less than six weeks.
But Borgnine's fifth marriage, in 1973 to Norwegian-born Tova Traesnaes, endured and brought with it an interesting business partnership. She manufactured and sold her own beauty products under the name of Tova and used her husband's rejuvenated face in her ads.
During a 2007 interview with The Associated Press, Borgnine expressed delight that their union had reached 34 years. "That's longer than the total of my four other marriages," he commented, laughing heartily.
Borgnine played a sensitive role opposite Bette Davis in another film based on a Chayefsky TV drama, "The Catered Affair," a film that was a personal favorite. It concerned a New York taxi driver and his wife who argued over the expense of their daughter's wedding.
Among Borgnine's other films were "Three Bad Men," ''The Vikings," ''Torpedo Run" and "Barabbas," ''Ice Station Zebra," ''The Adventurers," ''Willard" and "The Greatest" (as Muhammad Ali's manager).
More recently, Borgnine had a recurring role as the apartment house doorman-cum-chef in the NBC sitcom "The Single Guy." He had a small role in the unsuccessful 1997 movie version of "McHale's Navy." And he was the voice of Mermaid Man on "SpongeBob SquarePants" and Carface in "All Dogs Go to Heaven 2."
"I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours," he said in 1973. "And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me."
In 2007, Borgnine became the oldest Golden Globe nominee ever, at 90, for the TV movie "A Grandpa for Christmas." It came 52 years after his only other Globe nomination, for "Marty," which he won.
He didn't win that second time, but Borgnine was as gracious as could be about it.
"Hey, I already got one," Borgnine said. "I was nominated and I think that's wonderful. You don't have to win them all."
Ermes Efron Borgnino was born in Hamden, Conn., on Jan. 24, 1917, the son of Italian immigrant parents. The family lived in Milan when the boy was 2 to 7, then returned to Connecticut, where he attended school in New Haven.
When Borgnine joined the Navy, he weighed 135 pounds; when he left 10 years later, he weighed 100 pounds more.
"I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything," he said in 1956. "The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends."
For a time he contemplated taking a job with an air-conditioning company. But his mother persuaded him to enroll at the Randall School of Dramatic Arts in Hartford. He stayed four months, the only formal training he received.
He appeared in repertory at the Barter Theater in Virginia, toured as a hospital attendant in "Harvey" and played a villain on TV's "Captain Video."
After earning $2,300 in 1951, Borgnine almost accepted a position with an electrical company. But the job fell through, and he returned to acting, moving into a modest house in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.
His first marriage was to Rhoda Kenins, whom he met when she was a Navy pharmacist's mate and he was a patient. They had a daughter, but the marriage ended in divorce after his "Marty" stardom.
Borgnine married Mexican actress Katy Jurado in 1959, and their marriage resulted in headlined squabbles from Hollywood to Rome before it ended in 1964.
In 1963, he and Merman startled the show business world by announcing, after a month's acquaintance, that they would marry when his divorce from Jurado became final. The Broadway singing star and the movie tough guy seemed to have nothing in common, and their marriage ended in 38 days after a fierce battle.
"If you blinked, you missed it," Merman once cracked.
Next came one-time child actress Donna Rancourt, with whom Borgnine had a daughter, and finally his happy union with Tova.
On Jan. 24, 2007, Borgnine celebrated his 90th birthday with a party for friends and family at a West Hollywood bistro. Still boisterous, Borgnine made a rare concession to age at 88 when he gave up driving the bus he would take around the country, stopping to talk with local folks along the way.
During an interview at the time, Borgnine complained that he wanted to continue acting but roles were tough to find at his age.
"I just want to do more work," he said. "Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going."
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Mo. taxidermist preserves man's best friend
SLATER, Mo. - Growing up on the family farm, Anthony Eddy learned early on not to get too attached to animals, including household pets.
His devoted customers are a different story. Pet lovers across the country count on the Saline County taxidermist to faithfully preserve Brutus, Fluffy and other beloved companions for posterity. Even if it means shelling out thousands of dollars and waiting more than a year for the pets' return.
"They're very distraught, because their child has died. For most people, this animal is their life," said Lessie "Les" Thurman Calvert, Eddy's office manager. "Some are kind of eccentric. But most of them are just like you and me. They don't want to bury or cremate them. They can't stand the thought. ... It helps them feel better about the loss."
The front showroom of Eddy's Wildlife Studio in downtown Slater is a testament to pet owners' perseverance. Lifelike dogs and cats of all sizes are scattered along the floor, from a perky-looking Brittany spaniel to a regal Persian cat, a lone iguana and the stray cockatiel or two. Departed pets of all persuasions spend up to one year in hulking, freeze-dry metal drums before they are painstakingly preserved and returned to their owners.
Eddy said his business is one of the few in the country to specialize in pet taxidermy and has a two-month waiting list.
A former high school chemistry and biology teacher, hog farmer and Air Force veteran, Eddy started out in traditional taxidermy, stuffing great horned owls and pheasants with the help of a local veterinarian. He originally used the freeze-dry technique to preserve mounted turkey heads for hunters before realizing in the mid-1990s it could also work with pets.
Eddy, 64, compares his line of work to the mortician's trade. He'll share broad details about the process with customers but likes to keep some mystery to the process and steer clear of the gross-out factor. He's quick to embrace the artistry of his craft, especially when it comes to the primping and prepping required once the internal organs and body fat are removed and the carcass is fully dry. Depending on the customer's preference, pets can be posed with a skyward gaze, an extended paw or with eyes closed, seemingly asleep.
"You just have a knack for it," he said. "It's like an artist painting a picture."
The degree of difficulty - and the scrutiny of demanding pet owners who can immediately detect flaws or imperfections in their loved ones - keep many traditional taxidermists from the domestic animal sector, said Steve Wolk, president of the National Taxidermists Association.
"No matter how perfect your pet comes out, there can still be something wrong," said Wolk, who owns Little Creek Taxidermy in Festus, Mo. "When you go deer hunting, you don't know what that deer looks like. Everybody knows exactly what their pets look like."
Debbie Rosa, a 59-year-old teacher who splits her time between southern Maine and Port Charlotte, Fla., had her 17-year-old fox terrier, Lexi, preserved by Eddy when the dog died just before Christmas 2005. She said the choice was an easy one.
"I could stare at an urn, or I could stare at the ground in the cemetery, or I could hold and pet her," Rosa said. "Her spirit is in heaven, but her body is here on Earth."
Eddy and Calvert estimate they receive two to three pets each week, every week. The studio charges $850 for pets under 10 pounds and $40 for each additional pound.
Allen McConnell, a psychology professor at Miami University in Ohio who studies pet owners' behavior, said those who opt for animal preservation can be motivated by grief, a need for belonging and anthropomorphism - the act of ascribing human attributes to animals or even inanimate objects.
"It's very common for people to memorialize important members of their family," he said. "We often visit relatives in family gravesites on birthdays. ... It's part of an extended connection that people have."
Eddy said he is no longer surprised by unusual requests from customers. It seems that as long as humans embrace animals as four-legged friends, those bonds will continue past the pet's expiration date.
"It runs the whole gamut," he said, mentioning turtles, guinea pigs, snakes and more. "If you've got a pet of some kind, somebody's going to want you to preserve it."
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Flashback.K, as the latest variant is called, is able to hijack Macs even when users don't enter an administrative password. Instead, it does this by exploiting a critical Java vulnerability classified as CVE-2012-0507, F-Secure researchers wrote in a blog post. Although Oracle released a fix for the security threat in February, a patch has yet to be released for OS X users. That's because Apple distributes Java updates itself and the company has yet to make one for the specific flaw, or indicate when it plans to do so.
Flashback first surfaced in September as a trojan that masqueraded as an installer for Adobe's Flash Player. Over the past few months, it has taken on increasingly sophisticated features, including the ability to bypass built-in OS X malware protections and attack code that exploits long-ago patched Java vulnerabilities. The version analyzed by F-Secure is the first known time Flashback has exploited a vulnerability for which no fix is currently available.
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Attacks that exploit CVE-2012-0507 recently went mainstream when they were added to automated exploit kits such as Blackhole. Once it infects a Mac, Flashback changes the contents of some of the webpages it displays.
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Nobody likes energy codes. This unfortunate fact maintains my popularity ratings, as a writer and enforcer of energy codes, down in the low single digits. Energy codes fall into the same category as speed limits and industrial safety rules—things that society wants but the private sector just can't or won't do on its own. For builders and developers, however, the code restrictions seem to pile up year after year, making it ever more challenging to get things built. Isn't there some way to get those higher-efficiency homes that states and cities are demanding, while still leaving builders some flexibility to build things the way they like?
Such a pathway does indeed exist. A decade ago, Washington State decided that rather than pile on more residential code measures, it would establish a menu of several above-code options and leave it to builders and their clients to pick and choose from that menu. These options were assigned credits based on their predicted energy savings, and builders were free to select any combination that would add up to the required number of credits.
Giving Builders Options
Builders began choosing options based on a mix of the installed cost, ease of incorporating the change, and appeal to their target market segment. The system permitted quick adjustments as market conditions changed and allowed builders to select a different set of choices for a custom view home than they would for a suburban tract home or town house. Most importantly, it facilitated the construction of substantially more-efficient homes across the state, making that higher level of efficiency the new normal for home builders.
So what's the point of all this? Residential energy codes all focus on improving the performance of new and remodeled homes, reducing energy bills for homeowners and stress on utility grids while mitigating pollution and carbon emissions. The local economies where robust energy codes are in force gradually strengthen as money that otherwise would flow out of town to buy fuel remains circulating in town as wages and profits. (See "Somebody Likes Energy Codes?")
Somebody Likes Energy Codes?
Builders generally want to do work they're proud of, but sometimes they get forced into compromises. Strong energy codes are a boon for those already building high-performance homes—there won't be much cost difference left between your work and the code-minimum houses down the block—and for those whose high-performance ideas keep getting value-engineered into oblivion—a strong energy code puts the long arm of the law on your side.
Construction costs and energy savings for each of the options were developed by Ecotope, Incorporated, for six prototype houses using values and methodology from the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, the Regional Technical Forum, Navigant, and the Consortium for Energy Efficiency. The credits assigned to each option reflect the annual energy savings, rounded to the nearest half point. Measure life and interactive effects were incorporated into the determination of cost-effectiveness.
However, any advance in energy codes reliably meets with stiff resistance from stakeholders, who object to the additional costs and the changes imposed on their customary practices. Those who bear the burden of compliance with codes—the designers, builders, developers, and financers—feel as though they get nothing from the bargain but disruption, risk, and expense. Meanwhile, it's the long-term owners and tenants who reap the benefits of lower utility bills and more-comfortable homes for years to come, and their larger communities end up with less pollution and more jobs. This conflict, known as the split incentive, is a perennial problem in the development of energy efficiency regulations.
Washington State's home builders (putting it quite mildly) were not amused. The new rules were challenged in federal court and appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, with the state finally prevailing. Some of the options involved equipment such as furnaces and water heaters with efficiency ratings higher than the federal standards, and the home builders had argued that this approach violated federal preemption laws. The guiding principles for such option-based systems that finally emerged through the court cases and subsequent rulemaking were that the credits must be proportionate to the energy savings, and that there must always be some reasonable combination of options allowing a home to be built with that minimum federal standard equipment.
2018 Code—Taking Effect July 2020
Below is a quick summary of Washington's 2018 version of the options table for single-family homes, with most categories offering several different performance levels ranging from modest to substantial. If it were up to you to select six credits for your own project, which categories would you pick?
- Building envelope insulating values. Seven options, ranging from one half credit for better windows up to three credits for an insulation package that approximates Passive House performance.
- Airtightness and efficient ventilation. Four options, ranging from one half credit for moderately reduced air leakage up to two credits for Passive House-level airtightness with an efficient heat recovery ventilator.
- HVAC equipment efficiency. Six options, ranging from one credit for Energy Star-rated gas furnaces up to two credits for ductless mini-split heat pumps serving all of the living areas.
- HVAC distribution. Two options: one half credit for attic ducts deeply buried in insulation and one full credit for installing the entire HVAC system within the conditioned space.
- Water heating. Six options, ranging from one half credit for an Energy Star gas water heater up to two and a half credits for a high-performance heat pump water heater.
- Renewable energy. One credit for every 1,200 kWh of calculated annual solar production, up to a maximum of three credits.
- Efficient appliances. Half a credit for Energy Star kitchen appliances and a heat pump clothes dryer.
The number of credits that each new house requires in Washington depends on the size of the house and whether it's the current 2015 code or the upcoming 2018 code (see Table 1).
Table 1. New Home Credit Requirements
House Type
Size (ft2)
Credits Required
Credits Required
< 1,500
> 5,000
Small addition
< 500
Medium addition
The residential energy code also applies to low-rise multifamily buildings, which get different energy savings from these measures, so the proposed Washington code includes a separate column showing credits for individual apartments and requires a total of 4.5 credits.
A new twist going into Washington's 2018 code is a provision that subtracts one credit for using electric-resistance heating but adds a credit for heat pump heating, with no credit or penalty for gas heating. Without prohibiting any particular system, this measure strongly discourages electric-resistance heating and encourages heat pumps, recognizing that they provide double or triple the heating efficiency of traditional furnaces, and it moves Washington State closer to its carbon reduction targets. Elsewhere across North America, as coal plants close and renewables proliferate, the carbon impact of heat pumps will steadily diminish, while that of gas will remain.
Why a Credit Menu?
One advantage of the menu-driven approach is that an unfamiliar concept can get a "test drive" in the options table and provide additional flexibility where it's attractive for builders and home buyers. A current example is the new option for a suite of Energy Star appliances with a ventless heat pump dryer, all of which would have to be installed and connected before the final inspection. Because this approach is unconventional from a real estate perspective, it will be a few years until we know whether it will be commonly selected, but it could prove to be an attractive feature for home buyers.
The credit menu also provides utilities and local jurisdictions with a plug-and-play incentive program. Energy savings have already been documented for each of these options; they are familiar to local builders; and the code language is well established, so such programs could simply require a participating home to incorporate an extra credit or two. Alternatively, they could focus on incentivizing some particular option, such as triple glazing or ground source heat pumps, to support their policy goals.
As the options table was originally developed, it was anticipated that options would gradually transfer out of the table and into the main body of the code as they became accepted industry practice. However, few in the industry anticipated that some of the federal equipment efficiency standards would remain unchanged for so many years. Updates that may eventually align the federal standards for gas furnaces and boilers with contemporary practice are still in flux. Meanwhile, any state using a menu-based energy code must take care to maintain combinations of viable options that allow code compliance even while using equipment that just meets federal standards.
Each code cycle, proponents of increasing the required number of credits base their argument on an analysis of construction costs and modeled energy savings. Whenever the long-term savings exceed the long-term costs, these changes are considered fair game. Even though Washington State has some of the least expensive electricity in the country (thanks to some large dams built by our great-grandparents), these options remain cost-effective. For states with more-expensive electricity, meaning almost all states, the cost-benefit ratio is still more favorable.
Efficiency First, Renewables Later
A 2009 Washington State law requires the state energy code to achieve a 70% reduction in new building energy use by the year 2031, just 12 years from today. Bolstering this, a 2014 executive order from Governor Inslee directed this process to move forward even faster. Such factors drive the state to seek out novel approaches to advancing building performance, and have changed the argument at code development hearings from "Should we increase any efficiency requirements?" to "What's the most economical and effective way to increase efficiency?" The menu approach has certainly simplified code development hearings, because instead of battling through long lists of individual code change proposals, much of the argument has boiled down to something along the lines of "We have to add another two and a half credits!" "No, one credit!" "No, make it one and a half!" and so on.
Assuming the full package of measures now in the hands of the state building code council is approved, Washington State will stay right on its required trajectory. However, it's not clear at this point how many more credits there are to add. Houses are not that complicated, and the energy code only regulates the elements included in a building permit: envelope, HVAC, water heating, and lights. Efficiencies of some of these components will certainly improve over time, but not enough to meet this target. What might potentially get the state over the finish line is some future change to the federal standards for gas furnaces and water heaters. Once there's no longer a need to maintain combinations of options that incorporate this relatively inefficient equipment, Washington's goal will be within reach.
One guiding principle at work here is "efficiency first, renewables later." Each time stronger energy codes go into force, they convert high-cost high-performance construction into business-as-usual construction, as builders adjust to this new normal, rapidly reducing the cost and complexity of efficient home design. At the same time, the cost of rooftop PV continues to drop, and unlike everything else in construction, solar panels are one element that can easily be added to a home in the future. In the bigger picture, the nation gets far more solar energy in summer than in winter, and while electric utilities can absorb modest amounts of excess solar energy, they can't store vast amounts of summer energy production for use the following winter. For these reasons, high-efficiency construction today combined with solar readiness for tomorrow is by far our most effective path forward.
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Washington's menu-driven energy code essentially provides a performance code, without any need for energy-modeling or other software. Building upon a "pretty good" house as the starting point, it provides a broad range of pathways for builders and home buyers to make it a great house.
If we as a society have decided to make our buildings run cleaner and more efficiently, we'll get there by doing it together. Each place around the world where consistently high-performing homes are being built is a place where new buildings are required to perform at that level. The process of change is often difficult and frankly irritating, but the reward comes on the other side of the change, when that extra-high-efficiency construction has simply become the way that we all build.
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While Plantation (Fla.) running back Alex Collins was able to have his father sign his National Letter of Intent, allowing the five-star recruit to join Arkansas' 2013 recruiting class, his strange recruitment might have one more hurdle to overcome.
Shortly before Collins' announcement Thursday, a law firm announced that his mother, Andrea McDonald, had retained its services "to represent the family's interests" as she contemplated her son's athletic future.
McDonald's representation, The Cochran Firm, was founded by attorney Johnnie Cochran, who famously represented O.J. Simpson in his 1995 murder trial. Theoretically, the firm could attempt to invalidate the letter of intent Collins and his father submitted to Arkansas.
"Our client's initial intentions remain unchanged," Jack Paris, McDonald's attorney, said in a statement. "She is a loving and caring mother who only wants her son to choose a university without any outside and inappropriate influences. Ms. McDonald hopes all NCAA rules and regulations were followed during today's signing."
A prospect younger than 21 cannot submit an official, binding letter of intent without a legal guardian's signature. Collins was prevented from signing with Arkansas on Wednesday after his mother confiscated his signing papers and disappeared. His mother preferred that Collins stay closer to home and choose Miami (Fla.), where he was once verbally committed.
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"I know this sounds like it's not true," says Kaley Cuoco, "but as huge as the show is, it's just part of my life - not my whole life."
"The Big Bang Theory" is huge all right. Now in its sixth season (airing Thursdays on CBS at 8 p.m. EST), it reigns as TV's hottest sitcom, and now hotter than ever with an average 19 million viewers each week.
As virtually every viewer knows by now, "Big Bang" centers on a gaggle of geeky Cal Tech scientists, chief among them Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki), apartment mates who, by great good sitcom fortune, live across the hall from Penny, played by Cuoco. Penny aspires to be an actress but pays the rent by waiting tables at a Cheesecake Factory.
Unlike the boys, Penny is no genius. But neither is she a dumb blonde, which is key to the genius of "Big Bang."
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It was pretty smart to make Penny the "normal" character through whom the audience can enter the abstruse, brainy realm the guys occupy. At the same time, sexy Penny presides as a universal object of desire.
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Reflecting on what her hit sitcom has meant to other parts of her life, she mentions her parents - her dad, a real estate agent who has weathered tough times, and her stay-at-home mom in Southern California. During her childhood, they often had to cut corners, she says, "but I never noticed when things weren't great.
"This year, I'm hosting Thanksgiving and Christmas with, like, 25 people at my house - I can do that now." Her voice starts to tremble and her eyes moisten. "It's emotional, cause I remember we could never afford that. The show has been the hugest blessing."
Cuoco, who turns 27 on Nov. 30, grew up happy to be the center of attention.
"I was always very silly and never took myself seriously," she recalls. "When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, `Move back! Move back!'"
Her parents were supportive when she wanted to try acting, "but if I wanted to audition, I had to play tennis" (at which she excelled as a teen). "If I played tennis I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful."
She landed a role in a 1992 TV film starring Donald Sutherland. She played Maureen McCormick in the 2000 TV film "Growing Up Brady." Along the way, she landed jobs in lots of episodic shows.
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Then her agent phoned about a project called "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter." Reluctantly she auditioned for the part of the older daughter in a household whose loving but bewildered dad would be played by John Ritter. Cuoco got the role.
Though it built into a hit for ABC its first season, "8 Simple Rules" is remembered mainly as the final project of the beloved Ritter, who died abruptly early in its second year. The show pushed on through a third season, but it never overcame Ritter's tragic absence.
"I just adored him," says Cuoco, unleashing a stream of memories of how he used to cut up on the set and how much she learned from him.
"He'd put a potato chip on his shoulder and go, `Do I have a chip on my shoulder?' And we would just crack up! He would do it every day!
"Working with him showed me that I loved sitcoms," she goes on. "I'm a `Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte."
"Big Bang" co-creator Chuck Lorre, who snagged Cuoco for the show, agrees.
"Kaley was born to the form," he says in a separate interview. "There's an instinctive thing with comedy that some people have - an elegance and gracefulness, where no effort is apparent."
But there's effort for Cuoco, and on the job it pushes her to question everything.
"How could it not?" she says with a laugh. "I wonder, `Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept." She smiles, revealing nothing remotely wrong with those teeth. "It's going to be fine."
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The Ars Technica readership generally prides itself on wanting to know the technical details behind products, and finding these details generally increases the average Ars reader's desire for a product. But not everybody falls into this information-loving category; for some, learning more about a product actually makes them desire it less. Now, researchers have come up with an explanation for these information foes: the added details expose their existing understanding as shallow, which leaves them disappointed.
The authors of the new study posit that the difference between these two types of consumers comes down to their taste for understanding things. There's a commonly used test, called the cognitive reflection test (CRT), that provides a measure of how much mental energy people tend to put into things. It measures this by providing a series of questions with obvious, intuitive answers that are actually wrong. To recognize that your intuitions are leading you astray, you have to stop and take the time to think about your answer a bit. By measuring the frequency with which people pick the intuitive answer, the test provides a measure of their tendency to think carefully.
The authors hypothesized that this desire to think things through would correlate with a consumer's desire for information about a product. Those with a low CRT score wouldn't care much about how a product worked, while those with what they termed a "need for cognition" would put effort into understand what they were buying.
So the authors came up with a number of products and created descriptions for each that varied greatly in their details. In describing a laundry detergent, their descriptions ranged from "Contains natural enzymes" to "The detergent has enzymes. Grains made of alcalase and esperase protein molecules are dissolved in the detergent, thereby making clothes cleaner."
They then recruited participants through Amazon's Mechanical Turk service, and asked them to rate the amount of detail in the explanations, as well as their understanding of the product. Everyone agreed that the authors intent with the different descriptions worked out: the detailed ones provided far more information than the simple ones. But the value of the explanations differed. Those with low cognitive reflection scores felt their understanding was sufficient with the minimalist information—any more and their sense of fluency dropped. Those who scored highly on the CRT showed a linear increase, where more details meant greater understanding.
As it turned out, both groups liked having the sense they understood something. That meant that reflective people enjoyed the more complex explanations, while those for whom thinking things through had a lower appeal ended up preferring the shallow explanation.
In a separate experiment, the authors found that consumers would be willing to pay more for a premium product, but only if the explanation for its premium qualities made sense to them. Again, reflective people were more willing to pay extra if they got a detailed explanation, while the less reflective people liked the simple explanation best. In fact, for the second group, willingness to spring for a premium product dropped as the explanations got more complex.
For their final test, the authors wanted to understand why the less cognitively inclined preferred simple explanations. Is it that they don't force them to think, or that a more complex explanation reveals that they don't really understand things? To find out, they showed the participants a series of actual products and asked them what they'd be willing to pay. Then they asked for a detailed, step-by-step explanation for how the product worked. If a participant had an illusion of understanding, this should shatter it. They were then asked again how much they were willing to pay for it.
For people who scored well on the cognitive reflection test, having to go through the explanation step-by-step didn't change their self-reported level of understanding. But it made them much more willing to pay. The low scorers exhibited a bit of a Dunning-Kruger effect, in that they rated their understanding highly before being asked to explain things, after which it dropped significantly. When their understanding declined, they were much less willing to pay for things.
(The authors tripped themselves up a bit by turning to real products. Some of these had advertising copy that explained how the products acted in terms that nobody could understand, even the more cognitively inclined. It's not clear whether their descriptions were poorly written or the marketers were actually just making things up.)
In any case, the authors conclude that consumers' cognitive tendencies play a strong role in determining how they will respond to advertising. For those with a need to know, the more details, the better (assuming the details make sense, at least). There's an entirely separate population which, if given the details, will end up less likely to purchase a product.
Although the study doesn't extend beyond marketing materials, there seems to be a good chance that these tendencies apply to the availability of information on a product in general. Certainly within the computing scene, there are people who want to build their own machines and compile their own source code, while others are happy to have a black box that just gets the job done.
Journal of Consumer Research, 2012. DOI: 10.1086/667782 (About DOIs).


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I would like to choose this book as our next book for the Treeleaf Book Club (once we are done with our Precepts study and Aitken Roshi's The Mind of Clover) ... What do you think?
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's "Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai"
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We chant the 'Sandokai' ("The Identity of Relative and Absolute") during our monthly Zazenkai, during the Rohatsu Retreat, etc.From Publishers Weekly
This book is billed as a sequel to Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Suzuki's classic collection of talks on Zen, but it stands on its own considerable merits as an eloquent, humorous series of lectures on the Sandokai, an eighth-century poem central to the Soto Zen tradition. These lectures show Suzuki, head priest of Tassajara monastery in California until his death in 1971, using his line-by-line exposition of the poem to illuminate what it means to practice Zen Buddhism. He stresses the simultaneity of the relative and the absolute, skillfully using words to direct his listeners toward understanding, all the while emphasizing that words are merely fingers pointing at the moon of enlightenment. Suzuki's devaluation of the verbal frees him to embrace humor and paradox as teaching methods; his examples range from ancient Chinese stories to anecdotes about weeding in the Tassajara garden and encountering an earwig. Readers of his previous book will be familiar with his earthy, clear, intense style. This book also conveys the texture of monastery life; it recounts 12 consecutive talks and includes the question-and-answer sessions at the end of each talk. These exchanges offer some of the most fascinating parts of an already excellent book, as they explicate some of the unclear points and illuminate the indirect yet confrontational quality of traditional Japanese Zen teaching.
Do you think it absolutely a great choice, or just relatively so?
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There's something wintry about meringue cookies. They look like pure white mini snowballs that seem so right for the season. It's actually better to make meringues in winter. The air is dry, which helps keep meringues crisp.
With winter hopefully ending soon (bright sun is streaming through my window and the temps in Chicago have been above freezing), it's time to sneak in a batch of meringues before it's too late.
Meringues are a great dessert to make for guests, as they are naturally gluten-free. My kids' friends wolf down these sugary treats, taking extras home with them. Meringues also make great Passover treats, since all the ingredients are kosher for Passover.
Though I do like the look of snowy white meringues, I recently needed a chocolate fix (no surprise there). So in addition to adding chocolate chips to the meringues, I also added cocoa powder to half the batch to make double chocolate meringue cookies.
To shape the meringues, I drop spoonfuls of the mixture on a cookie sheet, because that's the easiest thing to do. If you want to be fancy (my kids' favorite word), omit the chocolate chips and pipe the meringues into prettier shapes using a pastry bag.
You'll want to dry out the meringues, so keep the heat low and slow. I bake them at 250 for one hour; some recipes say to leave meringues in a turned-off oven overnight. If the temperature gets much higher than 250, your meringues will turn tan, which might be a good look for you but not for your meringues.
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1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
2. Using a mixer, beat egg whites on high speed until foamy. Add cream of tartar and salt, and beat until stiff. Add sugar gradually and continue beating. Beat in vanilla extract.
3. Using a spatula, fold in chocolate chips.
4. To form the cookies, drop tablespoonfuls of mixture onto lined cookie sheets, about 1 inch apart. Only use half the mixture — save the rest for the chocolate version!
5. Sift cocoa powder on top of the remaining half of the mixture. (Make sure you have a dedicated gluten-free sifter!) Mix gently with spatula until cocoa is well combined.
6. Drop tablespoonfuls of chocolate mixture onto lined cookie sheet, about 1 inch apart.
7. Bake at 250 degrees for one hour. Allow meringues to cool, then store in airtight container.
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I started my blog in the middle of June this year. I was more than a little hesitant to do so but I wanted to participate in all the fun challenges I was seeing. So I finally took the plunge and I am so happy I did. I could not have foreseen the kind and inspiring people I would get to know.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Meet My Zoo
First up is Datsun, my best friend in the whole world! He's a seven-year-old, 80-pound mutt and he's the smartest, most loyal, and most playful dog ever. His favorite pastime — playing fetch with sticks in the yard. He could literally fetch all day long if I let him. I always wear out first. He also barks at every doorbell and car honk on TV, as well as the Wheel of Fortune ding noise.
Akasha is my oldest cat. He has a girly name, but he's all boy. As you can see here, he has crazy eyes. They're always huge and he often stares into space for, like, 15 minutes straight without moving. He loves to cuddle at night and demands to be held like a teddy bear as I fall asleep.
Pandora is the only girl in the family, and she knows it. She's a princess. When she wants to sit in your lap, she will. But don't even think about trying to pick her up to place her in your lap. She's ain't havin' that. She also has crazy soft fur, and she loves belly rubs. Oh, and she's a fighter. She's always starting spats with the boy cats ... it's the Memphis gangsta in her.
Polaris is the devil kitty, hence the horns in this picture. He's always chewing on things and scratching up furniture. I can squirt him with a water bottle (my form of punishment), and he'll just look at me like, "Do it again. I dare you." But other times, he's really sweet. He's a talker, and he knows how to woo folks with his adorable meows. We actually have long conversations — he meows, I meow, he meows, I meow. I'm never sure what I'm saying in cat language, but he always responds.
Here's Gelfling. Even though he's the fourth oldest, he still thinks he's the baby. He was the youngest for quite awhile before I took in the other two (pictured below Gelf). Out of all the kitties, he has the sweetest meow. It's the kind that you just can't resist. If he meows, I have to pet him. I just can't help myself. He also loves to burrow his head into small spaces. My boyfriend rescued Gelfling from a busy street in Midtown Memphis when he was a teensy kitten. And for some reason, he's never really grown very big. Maybe he was the runt of his litter.
Ozzie is one of the newer additions. He was my boyfriend's ex-roommate's cat. When that roommate left (in an effort to get out of paying his half of the rent), he left his cat behind. What a jerk! Luckily, Oz found a great home with me! He's a cuddler and typically sleeps at my side every night (yes, there are several animals in bed with me every night). He obviously didn't want his picture taken here — he was hiding under a shelf and sticking out his tongue.
Seymour is the the scaredy cat. My boyfriend also took him off the streets as a kitten (he has a penchant for rescuing animals), but I think Seymour is a little feral. He's never gotten used to the idea of people. He only likes me and Paul, and he's scared of his own shadow. He spends most of his days in the safety of my bedroom, and even demands his dinner in there. He also loves to drink fresh water from the bathroom tap. He doesn't exercise much, and he's kind of a fattie.
So there ya have it. These creatures are my life. I don't know what I'd do without them. I'm never lonely or bored because there's always a fur baby to keep me entertained. And I sleep much better knowing that my bed is filled with cuddly critters.
35 comments:
- Mike K said...
I love pet posts! My 9-year old street mutt (and I mean that only lovingly) Otter barks every time there's a doorbell sound on TV or radio, despite the fact that we've never lived anywhere with a doorbell. They're so smart, but not always rational...kind of like us. The kitties are adorable too.
- August 14, 2009 at 12:43 AM
- Amey said...
yay! I love this! I've been thinking about doing a pet post too... now maybe I'll really get around to it. I wish I could have more cats. I"m technically allergic to cats, so one is all I can really handle without the side affects being too gruesome. Thus, 3 dogs and one cat. I LOVE all your sweet kitties!!! (and Datsun too, of course! woof!)
- August 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM
- Sal - AlienOnToast said...
oh my god all your furbabies are gorgeous!! I would be a crazy cat/dog/bunny.... lady too if my landlord permitted it. I miss having a pet.
- August 14, 2009 at 4:09 AM
- dirtyduck said...
thats a lot of cats! does the dog feel out-numbered? all of the are so beautiful. im a sucker for animal blogs for sure.how do you keep there coats so healthy and shiny looking.
- August 14, 2009 at 6:38 AM
- LizNoVeggieGirl said...
TOO CUTE!! You should all come visit so you can meet my new puppy, Chooey :-)
- August 14, 2009 at 7:34 AM
- Leslie Richman said...
What a sweet family :)
- August 14, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- Tara said...
I agree with Mike, pet posts are the best! Thanks for sharing your family with us! I love the photo of Seymour, with the little water droplets on his face.
- August 14, 2009 at 9:21 AM
- Happy Older Hippie Woman! said...
What a great furry fam you have in your life - just like people, they each have their distinct personalities, quirks, funky habits, ...though, joyously so, pets love us & keep us company unconditionally. Datsun sounds like a dog dude I had a few years ago - Louie, he was my very 1st dog and the best companion ever.
My current pet pal is "Fred the Wonder Cat". He reached 3 last May; loves his cat food, loves to lie around contentedly and he, too, enjoys drinking from a faucet!
- August 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM
What a jerk ppl are so sick.I have a cat with my husband now a very stuck up little girl:) but I always wonder about dogs and cats. If my dog back home in Barbados saw this cat he would rip it to shreds. How do you have that peace in the house with these dogs and cat? I wish this little girl I have was a cuddler she only likes to cuddle with hubby..boo hoo. Thanks for showing us the gang.
- August 14, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- Carrie™ said...
Adorable! All of them!
- August 14, 2009 at 11:42 AM
- Mary said...
heeheeheehee! I love them all. I suspect Datsun and Graeme (my fetch-crazed baby) would get along well.
- August 14, 2009 at 12:50 PM
aw, they're all so cute! and i think once you have a cat and realize how amazing they are, you can't help but kindaaaa be a crazy cat person. we have one cat in my house, yet we've got a door sign that says "a spoiled rotten cat lives here" and fridge magnets that say "the head of the house is the one with the tail" and "women and cats will do as they damn well please--men and dogs had better get used to it." haha! i used to always be a dog person (grew up with a labrador) but cats are so great too! my kitty's name is ollie. :)
- August 14, 2009 at 1:08 PM
- Bethany said...
that is too funny! I have 6 cats and a dog. I had 7 cats, but he moved to VT to live w/ my brother.
crazy cat ladies unite!
- August 14, 2009 at 3:41 PM
- Jen said...
thanks for sharing your fur baby family with us. i love all the names and all the stories. god bless your fur baby savin' heart.
- August 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM
- miss v said...
such cutie pies! i have two farm mutts... i know what you mean - couldn't imagine my life without them.
i love the devil horns!
- August 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM
- Jen said...
ps- if i could afford it, i'd totally have an animal sanctuary to save all fur babies from the pound. all of 'em.
- August 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM
awww ... love your pets! I'm glad you have a black cat too - they are the best ;)
- August 14, 2009 at 4:29 PM
- Melisser; the Urban Housewife said...
Oh maaaaaan, SO cute! I have a talking tabby too! I love your adorable brood.
- August 14, 2009 at 5:40 PM
- T said...
Oh my god. As Rachel Zoe would say: "I die."
- August 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM
- Tiffany said...
Love seeing the pets. We have a rescued dog and two cats (one purebreed, one rescue - the heir and the spare). I laugh at that Marley book - my dog's done WAY worse things than Marley even thought of!!!
Give all the pets hugs from the blogosphere!
- August 14, 2009 at 11:23 PM
- nora said...
Wow, I can't believe you have so many, that's awesome! I can't wait until I graduate and can finally get my OWN dog! I loved how distinctly you described all their personalities--thanks for letting us in onto such a cute and fun part of your life :)
- August 15, 2009 at 8:37 PM
- Lisa said...
I'm so glad to meet your pet family! They all have such cute quirks.
- August 16, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- aTxVegn said...
What a wonderful pet family. That last picture is hilarious!
- August 16, 2009 at 5:57 PM
- jessy said...
awwww - your kids = the best, Bianca! Datsun has the sweetest face, and all of your kittehs are the absolute cutest!
Akasha's eyes are the coolest! i love that he's got a boa on! ahahahhaaa! Polaris is too cute with his devil horns as well. i love that your kittehs let you dress them up a bit - mine are not fans. sadface. i have to say i'm a sucker for a black kitteh - they're my favorite. Gelfling is such a handsome man! we have 3 kitthes (we had 4, but mr. tiggs passed away this past may - he was only 11. we miss him so much!) and sony (our second oldest) has the sweetest meow, too - she demands to be pet - it's the cutest! i love Pandora's markings - and her furs do look crazy soft! our oldest kitteh, ms. cat, was my friend's roommate's cat as well - he did the same thing - moved out and let the cat behind (he tossed her outside to live on the streets - poor thing!) - i'm glad you guys rescued Oz! he looks just like our sony! hooray for grey tabbies! our feral cat (her name is angry kitty) is a scaredy as well. she hates me (because i'm the one who clips her nails) but she loooves dan. she'll come out of hiding for him sometimes, too. i bet Seymour and angry kitty would be best buds! :) thanks for sharing your family with us, Bianca!
- August 16, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Aw, I love this! Your furry family is precious. Thanks for sharing!
~ Kelly
- August 16, 2009 at 11:03 PM
- Mihl said...
I sometimes miss having animals. I grew up with cats and dogs and my parents also have a cat whol loves to drink fresh water from the tap.
- August 17, 2009 at 2:57 AM
- Theresa said...
I've always wondered just how many furry friends you have, thanks for this post! The photos are really great. My kitty Nacho sounds a lot like Polaris -- she's a mean face, she meows *all the time*, and she does not respond at all to the waterbottle, but sometimes she turns sweet and purrs in my ear and I just love her.
- August 17, 2009 at 5:27 AM
- Gina said...
Awwww, I totally love your zoo!! I've been thinking about getting another cat, but I just moved my kitty away from my parents' cats, and she seems so happy on her own. We'll see :)
- August 17, 2009 at 7:23 AM
I love the pictures of your zoo. I can't imagine how crazy your house must be with 6 cats. Mine is crazy and I only have 2 animals! Polaris sounds just like my cat. She's evil and has conversations with us too.
- August 17, 2009 at 7:59 AM
- The Voracious Vegan said...
YAY! Best post ever! I LOVE hearing and seeing other peoples animal families, it is awesome. You are the crazy cat lady and I am the crazy cat lady. We've got 4 dogs, 1 cat, and 1 horse.
Datsum is awesome! He looks like such a big goofy cuddler!
Wow, Polaris has the best face! I want a portrait of that cat.
Thanks for doing this, I seriously squealed and read it all to my hubby. It is great how well you gave us a distinct snapshot of each of their personalities. Loved it!
- August 17, 2009 at 9:22 AM
- Andréa said...
They're all so cute and fun!! LOVE them. Thanks for sharing!
- August 17, 2009 at 3:34 PM
- Sheridan said...
I love Bianca's Zoo!
- August 17, 2009 at 9:11 PM
- Unknown said...
cute kitty pictures!
okay, probably my favorite post :)
haha thanks for all the pics!! looks like they'd be a lot of fun.
- August 17, 2009 at 10:23 PM
- Emily said...
i love all the original names of your pets! i wish i could have a pet in my apartment :( and yes, you should definitely try out SOB!though not very many vegan options, booo. but there is always the tequila...
- August 17, 2009 at 11:26 PM
- Erin said...
I love your animals and all their different personalities! They have great names too. Your description of Seymour reminds me a little of my own little fat boy. I don't envy you vet bills however, or your litter and food costs! You are an angel for taking care of all these little ones.
- August 21, 2009 at 1:24 PM


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Kyle Gouveia joined the elite company of basketball players who have broken the backboard glass. That's a feat that should serve him well when he enters college next year.
Gouveia, a senior at Calaveras High School in Calaveras, Calif., had the powerful dunk near the end of the third quarter of a varsity game Monday night. It came off a pass from Kyle Funk, who led a fast break after a steal. Gouveia finished the game, a 64-63 loss, with 31 points and 14 rebounds.
'I was like, 'Whoa, big Kyle," teammate Jayson Verona told the Calveras Enterprise. 'I couldn't believe it.'
Breaking the backboard glass does have some consequences, though. Gouveia had some cuts on his arm for the glass, and the game was delayed about 30 minutes. And yes, the 6-foot-7 future Stanislaus State University student is planning on dunking at every opportunity.